NL2 - Am I missing value here?
Villain 82 hands 17/13 and in profit so far.
Am I missing value here by not betting the river? I was somewhat concerned by the calls of largish sizes and considered that it was possible he had trips / two pair. If I should bet river, what size should it be?
PokerStars - $0.02 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
BTN: 83 BB
SB: 46.5 BB
BB: 104.5 BB
Hero (UTG): 112 BB
MP: 115.5 BB
CO: 115.5 BB
SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A♥ J♠
Hero raises to 2.5 BB, fold, CO calls 2.5 BB, fold, fold, BB calls 1.5 BB
Flop: (8 BB, 3 players) 7♣ 5♥ A♣
BB checks, Hero bets 5 BB, fold, BB calls 5 BB
Turn: (18 BB, 2 players) 8♥
BB checks, Hero bets 14 BB, BB calls 14 BB
River: (46 BB, 2 players) 3♥
BB checks, Hero checks
Spoiler
BB shows A♦ T♦ (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 32%, Flop 15%, Turn 7%)
Hero shows A♥ J♠ (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 68%, Flop 85%, Turn 93%)
Hero wins 44.5 BB
2 Replies
In theory we bet smaller in multiway pots, and we check a lot, especially when we don't have position. I imagine the idea is: since more people are in the pot, our equity is diluted. It makes little sense betting big when we rarely have > 40% equity. Here for example you might face 2pairs (A5, A7, maybe 75), club draws, sets, a few straight draws.
But anyway, with top pair good kicker I guess betting big is also fine. I think you played it ok, betting big on the river would be a bit thin. At microstakes we can also bet small on the river and we know they will call *any* ace and very rarely bluff raise, so if you want to extract max value you can maybe bet 8~9BB on the river.
I think it’s fine- I would say you can size up exploitatively on the turn a bit more and then just xb river. Wp.
